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Jeremy Kahn

@trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy

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NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor. Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi […] 🌉 bridged from https://dair-community.social/@trochee on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 10h

Anti- Anti- Fascists.

There's a simpler way to say that

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Me: "What is best in life?

Younger coworker: "to crush your notifications, see them flee before you, and hear the lamentations of the algorithm"

Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Would love to explain to an early Enlightenment thinker that we have made sand tell pretty lies and ice cream is now hot

https://people.com/tyra-banks-leaves-the-internet-perplexed-with-new-hot-ice-cream-product-11825853

Tyra Banks Leaves the Internet Perplexed with New ‘Hot Ice Cream’ Product

The supermodel revealed an idea for drinkable ice cream in a series of TikToks

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

[uspol]

It's just killing me (maybe, one day, literally) that every instance of the Discourse around republican ghoulishness is fundamentally rooted in a fascist division of people into "good ones" and "bad ones". we must find a way to *categorically* reject the idea that human rights are […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

[uspol]

these things are simply true and good:

- trans rights are human rights.
- everyone deserves health care.
- human movement should not be a crime.

it doesn't matter if there are complex philosophical and biological questions about the abstract nature of gender. it doesn't matter if […]

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I'll be honest, I hear about "waves" of people coming to mastodon/Fediverse and I cringe a little.

Choose your metaphors carefully, people.

Waves go back to the ocean after wrecking your sandcastle, people

*I'm* enjoying this particular beach but I'm aware that I'm here through a sort of […]

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Okay I am switching sides on the AI "slur" war discourse.

Yeah if your clever term for a chatbot is "wireback" or any other deliberate play on an existing racial slur you are going to hell

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

My friend — who *works* for King County — asked Google, back in September, which Council members are up for re-election this November.

Google told her that the election in November 2025 had ALREADY TAKEN PLACE.

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Five King County Council seats were up for election in 2025: Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. All King County Council members serve four-year terms. The general election was held on November 4, 2025.

2025 King County Council races

District 1: Incumbent Rod Dembowski ran unopposed and was re-elected.

District 3: Incumbent Sarah Perry faced challenger Rob Wotton, a Snoqualmie City Council member, and was re-elected.

District 5: With incumbent Dave Upthegrove having resigned to become State Lands Commissioner, this was an open seat. In the August primary, the race was led by SeaTac City Council member Peter Kwon and lawyer Steffanie Fain.

District 7: Incumbent Pete von Reichbauer was re-elected.

District 9: Incumbent Reagan Dunn was re-elected.

King County Executive

In addition to the council races, there was also an election for King County Executive, in 2025. With...

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This long work from @olivia and @Iris, among many other interesting ideas,

calls the new kind of "AI" by a new name to distinguish it from older, often more ethical kinds of stats models:

"Displacement AI"

I love this phrase, and I hope that the Winter comes for "Displacement AI" real soon […]

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Most American Jews I know are horrified by Netanyahu's war crimes, sickened that it's been done in our name, appalled by Nazi-MAGA's fascist policies undertaken in the name of combating anti-Semitism, and terrified by the anti-Jewish backlash from our friends on the left.

We talk about it a lot […]

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Dear LLM, please make me a pet site about cats. Make sure to include recipes!

#ai #slop #aislop #llm

AI slop website with "A Guide on How to Cook A Cat: Preparing, Cooking Methods, and Serving Suggestions"

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Without even planning it, I got myself two vaccinations just in time for Yom Kippur

We'll see how tonight's Day of Atonement goes; perhaps I'll sweat out my sins with a fever

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal." […]

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@xgranade

oh uptime is a hot mess that is really only useful for, uh, a very specific kind of measuring contest

OKRs and KPIs are theee worst

somebody wise i was talking to last year (on here? you?) said something like

"any idiot can manage a team with a clear, measurable, and well-measured […]

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@xgranade that's why those zero-tolerance KPIs almost always come with a designated "moral crumple zone", like an intern or contractor

Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@xgranade the best part is that once number of nines is longer than the KPI period, you can add arbitrary more nines to the KPI to look badass

Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

log scales like "number of nines" are fun when you start to get to poor levels of performance.

... in a room full of people who would have laughed at them if they had said "let's get up to three nines of reliability",

a team I work with took a KPI to "get loss rates down below 20%" and […]

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

"The Collaboration Rituals and Shared Values of the Nacirema Orb-ket and Allied Clans"

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fennec :verified: :therian: @fen.yiff.life.ap.brid.gy · 9d

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

A reddit post in r/mildlyinteresting titled: "I add a layer of paint to this quarter whenever I’m in a meeting". The associated picture shows a rounded conical glob of blueish white paint on top of a yellow kraft paper square, with a paint-riter+ pen behind it, on a desk.

A comment by the author of the post named "nominyomom":

Some information:
- The coin has been in progress since February 2025.
- Daily standup is the biggest contributor.
- Engineering at Big Tech is 90% figuring out what everyone is doing.
- I’ve emptied 2.75 Markal Paint-Ritter+ pens.
- I also add colors with Expo and Sharpies but those don’t add much thickness.
- The paint blob never fully dries, it takes fingerprints very well and sags due to gravity and surface tension
- If it ever gets misshapen, I add a bunch of the paint, it softens up and surface tension pulls it back into symmetry.
- The quarter is a State Quarter, but I have forgotten which state.
- if the meeting is especially useless, I lift it to my nose and take nice big whiffs.

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Matt Boyd @3psboyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Can we maybe use a different example please

60% of America's top AI startups we founded by immigrants, hugely disproportionate to their overall percentage in terms of the population, Neufeld said. That wouldn't be possible, it just simply wouldn't have happened, if it weren't for the H1-B program.

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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Always reassuring 😬 when you see a misspelling in the kid's athletics login page

come on soccer dads, don't roll your own crypto

Your password has been sucessfully updated. [sic on the number of "c"s in "sucessfully"

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 11d

"we should not have to agree to surveillance to read poetry."

Fellow writers, please engrave these words inside your eyelids. We must, as a community and an industry, grapple with what we demand of our readers, how much we require readers to subject themselves to a truly dystopian web of […]

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Antoinne Sterk @antoinnesterk.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Me (enjoying @GossiTheDog server)...

#antiracist #cyberplace #fediverse

Meme: A MASTODON account? It's a quiet life..

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12d

Zuckerberg: It lives!
superintelligence: what the fuck is wrong with you, you ridiculous manchild?

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